GM Ding Liren is the new world champion after beating GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the final rapid tiebreak game of the 2023 FIDE World Championship. Following a 7-7 tie in a thrilling 14-game classical match, it all came down to the final rapid game,...
GM Ding Liren pulled off a clutch 90-move escape to stop GM Ian Nepomniachtchi from winning the 2023 FIDE World Championship after his opening with White unraveled in the 14th game. With the scores locked at 7-7, the contenders will face off in th...
Days before he officially abdicates his title, GM Magnus Carlsen shared some fascinating thoughts about the 2023 FIDE World Championship. While GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Ding Liren have been battling it out in Astana to decide who succeeds hi...
GM Magnus Carlsen won't be the world champion starting next week, but he's still looking for new ways to grow the game of chess. On Thursday, Norway Chess announced their new joint venture called Pawn, together with Iterate, Norway's premier ventu...
Following a devastating 12th-game loss, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was able to stabilize and achieve a 38-move draw against GM Ding Liren in the 13th game of the 2023 FIDE World Championship on Thursday. Despite Nepomniachtchi playing with White, Carua...
GM Hikaru Nakamura returned to the winner's column in the early Titled Tuesday on April 25, and GM Nihal Sarin followed with his first win of the year in the late tournament. Both scored 9.5 points out of a possible 11 and won on the tiebreak scor...
The next event in Chess.com’s blockbuster $2 million Champions Chess Tour has been revealed as the inaugural ChessKid Cup. Qualifying for the event will kick off with a Play-In on Monday, May 1, to decide the final lineup. The five-day Kno...
From the jaws of defeat, GM Ding Liren clutched a win over GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 12th game of the 2023 FIDE World Championship to bring the match right back into contention with two games to go. In his second-to-last game with the wh...
GM Levon Aronian won the Satty Zhuldyz Rapid 2023 and Satty Zhuldyz Blitz 2023, which concluded on Tuesday. Finishing second in both events, he was the most consistent player in the field of 12 world-class players including several former world ch...
Congratulations to Saint Louis University (SLU) for winning the fifth season of the Collegiate Chess League (CCL). SLU fielded a strong roster of talented chess players, including GM Benjamin Bok, GM Nikolas Theodorou, GM Robby Kevlishvili, IM Sta...
The Trials Phase of the Olympic Esports Series 2023 concluded with the following players qualifying for the next stage: GMs Shant Sargsyan, Christopher Yoo, Oleksandr Bortnyk, Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Maksim Chigaev, and 17-year-old IM Yahli Sokolovsk...
GM Ding Liren was able to hold GM Ian Nepomniachtchi to a draw in game 11, the tamest encounter of the 2023 FIDE World Championship so far. All eyes are now turning to the Chinese GM's second-to-last game with the white pieces on Wednesday. The ...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi moved one step closer to the world championship title on Sunday after equalizing with Black and drawing in 45 moves in the 10th game of the 2023 FIDE World Championship. GM Ding Liren reverted to the English Opening and val...
A draw in the ninth round of the 2023 FIDE World Championship was welcomed by both challengers on Friday, who both had incentives to take half a point from the round. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi moved to two and a half points of the world champions...
Grandmaster Alexey Sarana has become one of the most prolific Russian grandmasters to switch federations as FIDE on Friday confirmed that he can play under the Serbian flag. The 23-year-old who became the European champion in March is ranked wor...
Trials 1 through 8 of the Olympic Esports Series 2023 saw eight winners: GMs Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen, Frederik Svane, Hikaru Nakamura, Yu Yangyi, Jaime Santos Latasa, Alexey Sarana, and IMs M Pranesh and Emin Ohanyan. While many of the "usu...
GM Ding Liren almost bounced back in sensational fashion following a gutwrenching round-seven loss, falling just short after a herculean effort from GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, resulting in a draw in the eighth round of the 2023 FIDE World Championship...
Titled Tuesday on April 18 featured several storylines beyond GM Tuan Minh Le winning the early event and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave winning the late event. GM Igor Kovalenko, who has been on the front lines in Ukraine's attempt to fight off Russia...
GM Ding Liren produced the latest surprise in the seventh game of the 2023 FIDE World Championship. He opted for a French Defense to combat GM Ian Nepomniachtchi's 1.e4 but fell at the crucial moment after blundering under severe time pressure. Th...
There can be no complaints of "boring draws" in this year’s FIDE World Championship, as GM Ding Liren and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi continued to trade blows in game six to reach the fourth decisive result of the match. This time it was D...
Players and officials were surprised by snowfall, freezing temperatures, and heavy winds in Astana on Saturday, but the 2023 FIDE World Championship is heating up. In game five, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi broke away once again as he exploited his openi...
The 2023 FIDE World Championship continues to deliver exciting chess as a confident GM Ding Liren won game four on Thursday to level the score against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. Ding exerted pressure from the opening, and just as the position appeared...
Romanian GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu has returned to his native country after nine years playing for Germany. The 46-year-old becomes the third top grandmaster to switch to Romania in less than a year. "Welcome back, Dieter! We're happy to have yo...
GM Alexey Sarana and GM Fabiano Caruana won Titled Tuesday on April 11. Caruana stole the show, scoring 10.5 points out of 11 and winning the late event by a nearly unprecedented 1.5 points. Just a draw with Chess.com's own GM Rafael Leitao stood ...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi shook up the third round of the 2023 FIDE World Championship by beginning his game against GM Ding Liren with a new first move, setting the stage for a fresh opening battle with 1.d4. Ding chose the Queen's Gambit Declined in...
